Sendmail, Inc.
 Sendmail Headquarters | |
| Company type | Subsidiary of Proofpoint, Inc. |
|---|---|
| Industry | Email Management |
| Founded | 1998 |
| Headquarters | Emeryville, California |
Key people | Glen D. Vondrick (President & CEO) Gregory Shapiro (VP, Cloud Enablement) & CTO |
| Parent | Proofpoint, Inc.  |
| Website | Sendmail, Inc. |
Sendmail, Inc. is an email management business.
The company is headquartered in Emeryville, CA[1] with offices throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia.
History
[edit]The company was founded in 1999 by Eric Allman in Emeryville, CA. Eric also created sendmail, an open source mail transfer agent while he was a student and a staff member at the University of California, Berkeley. It is the commercial version of the open source version of sendmail.[2]
Managing Email
[edit]In 2005, Sendmail released the Sentrion email infrastructure platform to address the need for full-content message inspection, enabling policy-based delivery[clarification needed] of all human and machine-generated email.[3]
Hybrid Cloud
[edit]In 2012, Sendmail partnered with Mimecast[4] to provide hybrid-cloud email security, archiving and continuity as some predicted that 2013 would see more organizations implementing hybrid cloud computing strategies[5] to reduce cost and complexity of their messaging infrastructure.
Machine-Generated Email
[edit]In 2012, Sendmail released Sentrion REAC (Rogue Email Application Control) amid growing security, compliance and other concerns posed by the growth of application-generated email[6] and migration of email to the cloud.[7]
Acquired by Proofpoint
[edit]In 2013, Sendmail was acquired by security-as-a-service company Proofpoint, Inc.[8]
Timeline
[edit]- 1998
- Released Switch, the commercial MTA
- 2000
- Released Sendmail Milter API
- 2001
- Released Mailstream Manager for email security and compliant policy management
- 2003
- Released Mailcenter for the enterprise[9]
- 2005
- Shipped first Sentrion™ appliance[10]
- 2006
- Celebrated 25th anniversary of internet email (MTA)[11]
- 2007
- Shipped Sentrion MP ‘inbound & outbound’ Appliance
- 2008
- Released Sentrion MPV and Sentrion™ MPQ
- 2009
- Released Sentrion Cloud Services (SaaS)[12]
- 2010
- Opened Sentrion App Store (www.SentrionAppStore.com)[13]
- 2011
- Sendmail teams with Harris and BMC on trusted enterprise cloud[14]
- 2011
- Released Sentrion Critical Customer Communications Enterprise Application Suite
- 2012
- Released Sentrion REAC (Rogue Email Application Control)[15]
- 2013
- Acquired by Proofpoint, Inc.
References
[edit]- ^ Rich's High-tech Business Guide to Silicon Valley and Northern California. Rich's Business Directories, Incorporated. 2003.
- ^ Costales, Bryan; Assmann, Claus; Jansen, George; Shapiro, Gregory Neil (2007-10-26). sendmail: Build and Administer sendmail. "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". ISBN 978-0-596-55534-4.
- ^ Sendmail guards e-mail, Network World Archived 2006-03-06 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Mimecast and Sendmail announce enterprise email collaboration, CloudPro
- ^ 2013: Year of the hybrid cloud, Network World
- ^ Automated Emails: Are You Launching a Denial-of-Service Attack on Your Own Company?, ReadWriteWeb
- ^ Email in the Cloud: Avoid the Pitfalls, Windows IT Pro
- ^ "Proofpoint, Inc. Acquires Sendmail, Inc". October 1, 2013. Retrieved 2017-02-22.
- ^ Sendmail Launches Mailcenter for the Enterprise Archived 2013-02-15 at archive.today
- ^ Sendmail Inc.'s Sentrion appliance: All-in-one e-mail security, GCN Archived 2006-03-06 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Your mail server sucks!, InfoWorld
- ^ Sendmail introduces protection for the cloud, IT Examiner Archived 2013-02-16 at archive.today
- ^ Sendmail launches 'app store' for enterprise, TechWorld
- ^ Harris, Sendmail and BMC team up on Trusted Enterprise Cloud, ZDNet
- ^ Sendmail Launches 'Rogue Email Application Control' Appliance, SecurityWeek